The spending estimates do not include players who are exempt from the bonus pools, like Asian or Cuban players who are at least 23 years old and played at least three seasons in a foreign professional league, including White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu....

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March 16, 2005 - Another happy Sox fan joins the party!
July 6, 2012 - 7 years later he's still part of it...

No, I'm not talking about the cap trades. There are all sorts of stories being leaked about teams planning to go way over their limits in 2014. That's cheating, there's a reason they are fined for doing it. It's the same crap that teams did in the draft before they established a hard cap.

No, I'm not talking about the cap trades. There are all sorts of stories being leaked about teams planning to go way over their limits in 2014. That's cheating, there's a reason they are fined for doing it. It's the same crap that teams did in the draft before they established a hard cap.

And get penalized for future use? I thought if they did that to a certain extent, then the next season they were limited to $500k signings, on a sliding scale basis depending how much they spent over that cap.

And get penalized for future use? I thought if they did that to a certain extent, then the next season they were limited to $500k signings, on a sliding scale basis depending how much they spent over that cap.

Is the punishment that severe? I thought the fines were almost the same as the luxury tax. Guess I have some research to do...